Wild Nights With Emily ☆☆☆☆ Molly Shannon is such a surprise as Emily Dickinson. Very fun and strange movie about Dickinson's love affair with her sister-in-law. At Red River with…
For the last five summers, the Center for Project-Based Learning at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has offered a project-based learning institute for teams from colleges and universities who are interested…
At the June 4 meeting of the Tackling a Wicked Problem instructors group, we were asked to develop an action plan to lay out things we need to learn about…
I have to be better about posting my movie "reviews" more quickly. I get overwhelmed thinking that I need to write something about the movie when really the whole point…
I am going to participate in Domain Camp 2019 this summer. It is a community focused on creating, maintaining, and extending domains for educators. The open invitation describes the camp…
I went to the 3rd Annual Higher Education Assessment Conference in Henniker last week. It's kind of an amazing conference because it is so cheap to attend--$50 for the main…
I have found that the first chapter of Joshua Eyler's book How Humans Learn connects nicely with what we're trying to do with Tackling a Wicked Problem. The chapter is…
Starting this fall, Plymouth State University is embarking on a new curricular initiative called Tackling a Wicked Problem (TWP). This is a course required of all first year students, designed…
Today was the final exam period for my section of IS4220--Signature Project. The students presented their final project to members of various offices across campus, including Admissions and MCCS, as…
I just finished reading Erika Hall's excellent book Conversational Design. Hall is a technologist who is interested in making digital systems more human-centered. The idea of conversational design is to…
I have had a couple of conversations recently in which people expressed concern that we have not accomplished much with the cluster initiative. I think this concern is coming up…
Just after mid-term every semester, my University holds "advising weeks" during which faculty meet with all of their advisees to help them plan their schedules for the upcoming semester. I…
I loved Jordan Peele's first movie, Get Out. I thought it was one of the top five movies of 2017. So I was very excited about Us, Peele's second movie.…
Although I didn't go anywhere for spring break two weeks ago, I did take advantage of the time away from the office to go see three movies. Captain Marvel ☆☆☆☆☆…
I've written about why I think we need the IndieWeb before. I'm going to the Popular Culture Association Conference in April and will present about this there as part of…
This movie was an unexpected surprise! Based on the true story of professional wrestler Paige, the movie chronicles Saraya Bevis' rise from wrestling in the World Association of Wrestling, a…